Occupy Wall Street

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Geraldo Rivera Talks Occupy Wall Street On Fox & Friends: ‘Let the freezing rain drive them away’

After Brookfield announced this morning it will postpone the evacuation (or, as the protestors said, “eviction”) of Zuccotti Park for cleaning , Fox & Friends spoke with Geraldo Rivera, Liberty Plaza reporter and Geraldo at Large host. Mr. Rivera expressed some sympathy for the protestors, explaining, “There is a tremendous frustration and fear for the first time.” But, he added, “they are flailing around for someone to blame.” Read More

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Mitch Rudin’s Quarterly Report

In June, Mitch Rudin took the reins as Brookfield Office Properties’s president and C.E.O. of U.S. Commercial Operations following news that Ric Clark would relinquish his role as president of the Canadian firm, which controls downtown’s World Financial Center, while remaining on as C.E.O. of corporate operations. Last week, Mr. Rudin, 58, assessed his progress.

The Commercial Observer: So, why don’t you assess your progress over your first 60 days at Brookfield?

Mr. Rudin: It’s been terrific. I wouldn’t quite call this my midterm report card, but I’ve been here for two months, and to the extent that there have been any surprises they’ve all been pleasant.

What kind of surprises? Read More

After All That, Journal Re-Ups At Its Old Home

After seriously considering a move to midtown, Dow Jones, the parent company of The Wall Street Journal , told Off the Record this week that the company will keep its and the newspaper’s headquarters in lower Manhattan.

It is unclear where Dow Jones and The Journal will resettle downtown. Companyexecutivessay they’re keen to return to Read More

A Web Site With the Inside Dope on the Middle East

No matter how much President

George W. Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld plead that their new war

on terrorism will require a severe clampdown on media access, the public’s

appetite for up-to-the-minute leaks and inside reporting shows no sign of

abating.

Part of this is generational,

of course. Lines like Mr. Rumsfeld’s “the Read More

The Tower Broker: Zuccotti Makes Bid for Trade Center

An innocuous-looking government report sits on a shelf in

John Zuccotti’s office on the sixth floor of One Liberty Plaza. Published in

1981, The Future of the World Trade

Center represents the findings of a blue-ribbon panel chaired by Mr.

Zuccotti, a former deputy mayor who was then settling into life as a

high-powered private Read More